"I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works."

“Behavior shapes emotions.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

“Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.”

“Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.”

“Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.”

Source : Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

“I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.”

“Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.”

“Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.”

“I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.”